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Mac OS X 3D File Browser

Posted by pudge on from the shades-of-project-x dept.

A user writes "A development team at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana has released a 3-dimensional file browser called 3DOSX as a test of the feasibility of the technology. This program uses OpenGL to render a file system as a series of floating 'platters' interconnected by semi-translucent beams of light." I tried this on my old PowerBook G3/400, first from the source and then from the disk image, and then realized I don't have the required OpenGL-accelerated video card. Doofus am I! Be not like me! (However, it does work, albeit very slowly, on a new iBook/600). J adds: Nice and fast on an old G4/500 with a Radeon.

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  1. So finally it's true! by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know this, this is a UNIX system, they tell you everything!!

  2. Finally... by luckbat · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you see a file browser like this, can you doubt that we're now one step closer to navigating the Internet in the manner Johnny Mnemonic insisted we would?

    (I mean just look at those 3DOSX screengrabs. The technology was clearly designed by superintelligent cyborg dolphins.)

  3. I'm a little leery of any product with... by ellem · · Score: 4, Funny

    DOS right in the middle of it. 3DOSX just gives me the willy's!

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